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Saigas on the brink: Multidisciplinary analysis of the factors influencing mass mortality events (2018)
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Kock, R. A., Orynbayev, M., Robinson, S., Zuther, S., Singh, N. J., Beauvais, W., …Milner-Gulland, E. (2018). Saigas on the brink: Multidisciplinary analysis of the factors influencing mass mortality events. Science Advances, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aao2314

In 2015, more than 200,000 saiga antelopes died in 3 weeks in central Kazakhstan. The proximate cause of death is confirmed as hemorrhagic septicemia caused by the bacterium Pasteurella multocida type B, based on multiple strands of evidence. Statist... Read More about Saigas on the brink: Multidisciplinary analysis of the factors influencing mass mortality events.